ANCIENT ROMAN GLASS FLASK
Ca. 100-300 AD. A beautiful glass flask with a globular body, a flaring cylindrical neck, and a wide mouth with a slightly everted rim. Good condition. While glass-making had been practiced for centuries, the Romans invented the glassblowing technique in the 1st century BC, which revolutionized this craft. Roman glassmakers reached incredible artistic heights with both free-blown vessels and mould-blown forms and decorations. Flasks such as this one were used in Roman times to serve liquids and archaeological excavations show that they had an Empire-wide distribution (see Bayley, J., Freestone, I., & Jackson, C. (2015). Glass of the Roman World. Oxford And Philadelphia: Oxbow Books). To find out more about glass objects in the Roman world, Bayley, J., Freestone, I., & Jackson, C. (2015). Glass of the Roman World. Oxford And Philadelphia: Oxbow Books. Size: L:45mm / W:40mm ; 7.7g Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.

Estimate: GBP 75 - 150